An Absence Made Present The Sanskrit Correspondence of J. Ph. Vogel and Nityanand Shastri

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Published: Dec 24, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v17i2.40317
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J. Ph. Vogel, Nityanand Shastri, Sanskrit epistolary tradition

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Peter C. Bisschop
Leiden University

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This essay introduces the remarkable correspondence in Sanskrit between the Dutch Indologist J. Ph. Vogel (1871–1958) and the Kashmiri pandit Nityanand Shastri (1874–1942). After presenting two Sanskrit letters from their correspondence together with an annotated English translation, the essay considers several aspects of these letters, both in the light of the Sanskrit epistolary tradition itself and in comparison with those of other cultures. The essay also draws attention to the difference in cultural idiom when Vogel writes in Sanskrit and when he writes to the same correspondent in English.


 

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation
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Essays

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Author Biography

Peter C. Bisschop , Leiden University

Peter C. Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at Leiden University. He specializes in the dynamics of textual production, Sanskrit narrative literature, and early Brahmanical Hinduism. His main publications bear on the history of Śaivism and include Early Śaivism and the Skandapurāṇa (2006), Universal Śaivism (2018), The Vārāṇasīmāhātmya of the Bhairavaprādurbhāva (2021), A Śaiva Utopia (2021), volumes IIB, IV, and V of the critical edition of the Skandapurāṇa (2014, 2018, 2021), and the edited volume Primary Sources and Asian Pasts (2021). He is the general editor of Indo-Iranian Journal and Gonda Indological Studies and founding editor of PURANA Media. He currently heads the ERC project ‘PURANA: Mythical Discourse and Religious Agency in the Puranic Ecumene’ (2022–2027).